Category: recreational fun & games
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Christmas lights run, 2005 edition
For the past three years or so, we’ve been going up to Griffith Park around Christmas to see the DWP Light Festival. Speaking as an Edison customer, it’s sort of obscene how the DWP consumes electricity, but hey, it is a pretty cool light show they put on. The lights go on for about half…
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Yep, it’s still 26 miles across the sea
We spent this past weekend over on Catalina Island (one of our favorite places), enjoying a few days of fun and frivolity with friends. Much rich food and drink was consumed, but Chuck and I stuck to our marathon training program (it’s not that it’s that huge a training program – we’re actually training for…
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Born to run, but I repeat myself
We really hit the ground running (so to speak) yesterday – we made it back from our Ojai trip about 2pm, went to the store, unpacked, cleaned up and hey presto! company arrived! We were playing host to some running friends who were participating in the Long Beach Marathon today. Well, they were actually doing…
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Born to run
Wonder what sort of romantic activity we get up to on Saturday nights? Well, this past Saturday night we hit the streets of L.A. for the Nike Run Hit Wonder 5K/10K race. The race started on Exposition Boulevard, right between the Exposition Park Rose Garden and USC. The course ran down Figueroa to Venice, then…
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Let’s do the time warp again!
Monday was Labor Day, but it was also the night they showed the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Hollywood Bowl and WE WERE THERE! Yes it’s true, I am no longer a virgin – I have seen RHPS in a theatre setting. It was wild – 7800+ people all throwing rice, toast, toilet paper,…
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Fireworks: The Movie!
Okay, so I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed sometimes. Or it could be that Chuck’s camera (a Sony) produced a movie clip format (.MPG) that iMovie didn’t like. At any rate, I imported the clips (which were .AVI) from my camera (a Canon SD500) into iMovie, and had no trouble editing, adding titles,…
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